Hello,
I am Alex Damgaard, I am new to this forum.
I am playing around with a logo idea and I am having trouble getting the erase tool to erase part of an elipse shape in Corel Draw. I select the erase tool and click and drag accross the part of an elipse that I want to get rid of (so far so good), then I release the mouse and an outline of the nib tool is left behind. This is not what I would expect to happen. I have read up on the subject, but I still don't know what I am doing wrong.
I saved my error as a JPEG that is attached for your scrutiny.
Thanks in advance,
Alex
To explain what it is doing ... try filling your ellipse before you erase it. The erase tool is nibbling away at your ellipse -- leaving an ellipse with a bit cut out.
This is exactly what you would expect if you erase the edge of a filled ellipse. But like all other CorelDraw objects, the outline behaves exactly the same whether or not it is actually filled.
That is not what you want in your case. However, you can make it work your way. Before applying the eraser tool, select the ellipse and do Arrange > Convert Outline to Object. The eraser will now behave as you want it.